From left, Outcast Motorcycle Club member Willie Thomas, 61; Angie Battle's mother, Versie Glenn, 73, and sister, Arlene Rushin, 51, both of Detroit, stand in shock today outside the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office after finding out Battle was killed in the crash on I-94 early Sunday. / Tammy Stables Battaglia/Detroit Free Press

Angie Battle, center in black pictured Friday night, who would have turned 53 today, was killed early Sunday with two friends from the Outcast Motorcycle Club as they were in a pick-up truck on I-94 going home from a wedding on Belle Isle early Sunday. / Friend's photo

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Family and friends are mourning the loss of three members of a metro Detroit motorcycle club killed on their way home from a wedding when a car sheared off the top of their pickup.

Police said the Chrysler 300 that hit them launched off the I-94 service drive as the driver was being chased by her boyfriend. Mazur said one of four women in the Chrysler, Dkeya Hodges, 20, of Eastpointe died. The causes of death for Battle, Barnett and Glenn have been temporarily listed as accidental.

Detroit police spokeswoman Kelly Minder said Monday that the Chrysler driver’s boyfriend, who has not been named, remained in custody.

Hood said he had expected to take his mother out for dinner for her birthday.

“My mother loved God, was hardworking, caring,” Hood said.

Battle was on a party bus with friends Friday night, celebrating her birthday. Gordon said Glenn had recently arrived in Detroit and was planning to live here.

Gordon became concerned Monday morning when she hadn’t heard from her friend Battle, a health care aide who works with the elderly and who typically calls her every morning.

“I was doing some detective work, trying to find her, so I came down here and found out it was all of them,” she said outside the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office on Warren Avenue in Detroit. “I saw her son coming out crying, and I knew. She went to a wedding that day, and we haven’t seen her since.”

Outcast Motorcycle Club member Willie Thomas, 61, said Barnett, also known as Jimmy Mack, was driving the pickup. Barnett, he said, was a Harley enthusiast who rode a Road King.

Barnett was a regular at the family-oriented club, which hosts celebrations for holidays and birthdays and supports a local youth group and cancer research, Thomas said.

He said the trio had stopped by the Outcast clubhouse on Woodrow Wilson at Fulton after attending the wedding Saturday. Battle and Barnett were “both outstanding individuals, loved by the community and their peers,” Thomas said. “They’re going to be sadly missed.”